The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. the ratio of yes votes to no votes was 5 to 8. if there were 3585 yes votes, what was the total number of votes?

9321 votes

Step-by-step explanation:

1- You can express the ratio as following:

or

2- Let's call the number of  no votes "N"

3- Therefore, if there were 3585 yes votes, then you can write the following expression to calculate the number of  no votes:

4- Then, the total number of votes is:

9321

Step-by-step explanation:

We can simply make a ratio (fraction) to solve this. Let total number of  NO votes be N. Shown below is the ratio:

Now we can cross multiply and solve for N:

Hence, number of NO votes is 5736.

To get TOTAL number of votes, we add number of yes votes (3585) to that of number of no votes (5736).

Total votes = 3585 + 5736 = 9321

n

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